In recent decades, scholars in Jewish studies have devoted themselves to crafting critical editions of various compositions within Sage literature, driven by the premise that an "accurate book" serves as the fundamental bedrock for all textual inquiries. Within the burgeoning field of digital humanities, aimed at leveraging programming tools for humanistic research, the potential to incorporate scholarly-digital editions of both ancient and contemporary texts has emerged. At the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies in the summer of 2015, I unveiled a scholarly-digital edition of the Jerusalem Rosh Hashanah Talmud tractate available at www.yerushalmi-criticaledition.com. This edition encompasses textual sections, afrat, parallels to sage literature, and a comprehensive commentary on the entire treatise based on extensive research (www.yerushalmi-criticaledition.com).

A key advantage of a scholarly-digital edition lies in its capacity to augment the commentary section with a digital compendium featuring images, videos, sound clips, and maps (Google Maps link). The integration of a digital map in the scholarly-digital edition for Rosh Hashanah Jerusalemites as a representation of knowledge poses multifaceted challenges. The process of map preparation prompts inquiries into site identifications, dual identifications of the same site, differentiation between tangible and conceptual sites, determining the optimal number of layers on the map, and more. On the part of students engaging with this edition, questions arise regarding the map's utility in identifying mentioned sites and comprehending the spatial context within which the sages operated during the Talmudic period.

In this presentation, I aim to briefly outline the challenges encountered by the map's editor and present initial findings from an ongoing study I am conducting on how students of oral Torah, both as learners and educators, utilize the map within this edition.